SAN DIEGO — Dr. Spencer Epps has been chosen by the Rich Life Gallery to exhibit his latest series, Arts Mentis, paintings on mental health. The show is 4-10 p.m., Oct. 12 at 502 University Ave. in San Diego. Through emotive portraiture, thought-provoking, abstract and linear paintings, Dr. Epps provides a cogent critique of the primitive state of modern medical and social responses to those suffering from mental illness.
Michael Edwardson, owner of Rich Life, sees “the esthetic and sophistication in the pieces, and the attention they bring to an extremely important issue.” Both a physician and trained physicist, Dr. Epps has created the series, Arts Mentis, to bring critical attention to mental health.
Dr. Epps personifies “mind cancers” and “psychic pathology” as terrifying and disturbing demons and monsters, as in The Voice, Black Tower and City of Darkness. He depicts the desirable states of “mental hygiene,” “mental fitness” and triumph over the “Voice” (the self-loathing voice within each of us) through the subtle and sophisticated use of linearity in the depiction of cityscapes, as in Towers, City of Light and Darkness Lifting.
Four million children and adolescents in this country suffer from a serious mental disorder that causes significant functional impairments at home, at school and with peers. Of children ages 9 to 17, 21 percent have a diagnosable mental or addictive disorder that causes at least minimal impairment, as reported by the U.S. Surgeon General.
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